Category Metafields (Taxonomy Attributes)
Automatically match products to Shopify taxonomy attributes like Colour, Material, Size, and Age Group.
Prerequisites
- Industry Packs installed in Settings. See Industry Packs for the full list of 22 packs covering 3,758 attribute types.
- Products with a Category ID assigned (from Enrichment or CSV).
How Matching Works
Phase 0: Direct Match — matches variant option names directly to category attributes. For example, your "Color" column maps to Shopify's Colour attribute, with values like "Black" or "Navy".
Phase 1: Deterministic Match — handles high-confidence cases such as parenthetical abbreviations ("L" becomes "Large (L)").
Phase 2: AI Match — for ambiguous remaining attributes, AI selects from Shopify's exact taxonomy values.
The "Industry Pack not installed" warning
If a category metafield cannot be written because the relevant Industry Pack is not enabled on your store, Importier shows a warning on the Import Complete page. The product still imports; only the metafield write is skipped. Follow the one-click guidance to enable the pack via Shopify's settings.
Combined attribute types
Some attributes are stored together by Shopify (for example, Colour and Pattern share shopify--color-pattern). Importier handles these automatically.
Overriding metafield values
Click into the Category Metafield column dropdowns in the Review Import Table to pick a different value, or leave a value blank to skip writing that specific metafield.